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New comment by phreeza in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

phreeza — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 06:53:36 +0000

I ran Claude Code on my ca 2015 ThinkPad which was having wifi issues and asked it to fix them. It diagnosed the problem and applied some obscure kernel flag which fixed the issue.

New comment by phreeza in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

phreeza — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:26:54 +0000

There are plenty of expenses in this order of magnitude that are not tied to direct increases in productivity. I think it may become a serious hiring impediment for companies to be really skimpy on these budgets for example.

New comment by phreeza in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

phreeza — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:16:57 +0000

Is it really that different with the current iteration of AI compared to what was possible 10 years ago? There may be some new awareness at the executive level of what is possible, but I feel like a "slacker detector" or whatever would have been possible with xgboost or lstms.

New comment by phreeza in "AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford"

phreeza — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:48:39 +0000

Pretty sure op is talking about university in Spain for other subjects, not Spanish class at university.

New comment by phreeza in "Why the smart home bubble popped"

phreeza — Tue, 26 May 2026 04:17:40 +0000

I think it's just a joke/reference to HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey

New comment by phreeza in "A History of IDEs at Google"

phreeza — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:19:42 +0000

The most amazing thing to me about Cider-V was that Cider (without the V) actually went away after a relatively short amount of time, when virtually every other internal service that is officially EOL-ed lives on essentially forever.

New comment by phreeza in "An idiot's guide to lead optimisation for proteins"

phreeza — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:06:15 +0000

A rare breed!

New comment by phreeza in "An idiot's guide to lead optimisation for proteins"

phreeza — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:18:58 +0000

That seems possible for generating completely new proteins.

Do you think it's also the case for lead optimization where you typically have some degree of measurements around your starting point, and you are expecting to stay in that local neighborhood for the generated candidates, too?

(Disclaimer: former Cradle employee here)

New comment by phreeza in "Looking at the data behind prediction markets"

phreeza — Sat, 09 May 2026 05:47:24 +0000

Check out manifold markets, sounds like that is what you are looking for?

New comment by phreeza in "We need a federation of forges"

phreeza — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:01:42 +0000

Would you be open to sharing a version of your pitch deck? The main question in my mind is what kind of exit the VCs have in mind when they give you this money.

New comment by phreeza in "Homegrown – An interactive map of every 2025 FBS college football player"

phreeza — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:02:46 +0000

It seems like college towns have a lot of players even if they are small, what's the reason for that?

New comment by phreeza in "Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects"

phreeza — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:27:17 +0000

That's definitely true for some of them, but for others it's not so clear, like the Apollo or Manhattan projects? Those of course also have lasting impact but it's more in terms of knowledge, which at least arguably we are also accruing with these data centers.

New comment by phreeza in "We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit"

phreeza — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:10:03 +0000

What do you mean you heard? Are you not a member of their team? Your posts in the last hour seem quite astroturf-y.

New comment by phreeza in "Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation: Reinforcement Learning and Diffusion Models"

phreeza — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:28:29 +0000

Numerical issues totally exist but the reason has nothing to do with the fact that Cauchy sequences don't exist on a computer imo.

New comment by phreeza in "Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation: Reinforcement Learning and Diffusion Models"

phreeza — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:15:59 +0000

I understand that much, but it seems like "your naive timestep may need to be smaller than you think or you need to do some extra work" rather than the more fundamental objection from OP?

New comment by phreeza in "Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation: Reinforcement Learning and Diffusion Models"

phreeza — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:36:29 +0000

Doesn't continuous time basically mean "this is what we expect for sufficiently small time steps"? Very similar to how one would for example take the first order Taylor dynamics and use them for "sufficiently small" perturbations from equilibrium. Is there any other magic to continuous time systems that one would not expect to be solved by sufficiently small time steps?

New comment by phreeza in "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder"

phreeza — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:11:24 +0000

What really gets me is that the time between windows 95 and now is more than between voyager launching and Windows 95. Same for the moon landings for that matter.

New comment by phreeza in "Please do not A/B test my workflow"

phreeza — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:03:03 +0000

Seems completely unsurprising?

New comment by phreeza in "Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens"

phreeza — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:41:10 +0000

Unless they are contributing to the survival of their offspring.

New comment by phreeza in "Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language"

phreeza — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:23:46 +0000

Reminds me of my personal HN glory days, now 16 years ago!! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1395726